Category: Sessions

A Texas restaurant was forced to shut down its social media accounts on Saturday after it received backlash for posting a photo of Jeff Sessions during the attorney general’s visit to the Houston chain. The fury against El Tiempo Cantina began when the restaurant posted a picture Friday of owner Rolando Laurenzo’s son and Sessions.…

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American culture has become “less hospitable to people of faith,” Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Monday in vowing that the Justice Department would protect people’s religious freedom and convictions. Sessions spoke at a Justice Department summit on religious tolerance at a time when courts have been asked how to balance anti-discrimination laws against the First…

Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Monday announced the Department of Justice is creating a religious liberty task force. In a speech at the Department of Justice’s Religious Liberty Summit in Washington, Sessions said that the task force was set up to implement religious liberty guidance released by the department last year. Attorney General Jeff Sessions…

Sadly it is no exaggeration, no hyperbole, to say that Attorney General Jeff Sessions declared a holy war on LGBT people, LGBT equality, and LGBT rights on Monday. He declared war on anything that could be perceived to trespass on the ‘religious freedom’ or ‘religious liberty’ of Christians – which is a loosely defined enough…

Attorney General Jeff Sessions repeated the phrase “lock her up” during a speech to conservative high school students on Tuesday, chuckling as the crowd began a chant that Trump supporters used during the 2016 campaign to call for jailing Hillary Clinton. Mr. Sessions, the country’s top law enforcement official, was speaking at a four-day conference…

Attorney General Jeff Sessions is drafting a regulation that will narrow the asylum rules and likely deter many people from taking the costly and risky step of migrating towards the United States, according to Vox.com. Vox reported that read a draft of the regulation, which could be enacted by the end of the year: Under…

The critics of President Donald Trump’s border reforms are radical, hypocritical elites, says Attorney General Jeff Sessions. “The rhetoric we hear from the other side on this issue—as on so many others—has become radicalized,” Sessions told an audience in Los Angeles. He continued: We hear views on television today that are on the lunatic fringe,…

Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ Department of Justice (DOJ) is hitting a North Carolina landscaping business with a major civil penalty for hiring foreign workers while discriminating against Americans. The DOJ announced on Tuesday that it had reached a settlement with the Newland, North Carolina landscaping company, Triple H Services LLC, after the business was accused of…

Attorney General Jeff Sessions rebuked critics of the Trump administration’s “zero-tolerance” policy on Tuesday, stating that several of them enjoy security themselves, while not supporting the administration’s strict approach to border security. “The rhetoric we hear from the other side on this issue — as on so many others — has become radicalized … These…

In a sermon delivered by Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ church pastor, Rev. Tracy Wines touched on the Trump administration’s “zero-tolerance” immigration policy that resulted in the separation of more than 2,000 children from their families at the U.S.- Mexico border. “…My heart and spirit have been broken by the images and stories that have been…

U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions defended the Trump administration’s immigration policies Monday in a speech, calling on Congress to act and asserting that many children were brought to the border by violent gang members. Speaking at a school safety conference in Nevada, Sessions said the crisis at the border is a “difficult and frustrating situation”…

President Donald Trump blinked on Wednesday, signing an executive order that at least backs away from the administration’s policy of separating immigrant families at the border — and weakening his brand as a tough nationalist. Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen has been forced to be the smiling face of the policy — and the policy…

Disgraced FBI agent Peter Strzok no longer possesses his security clearance, Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Thursday. “Mr. Strzok — as I understand — has lost his security clearance,” the country’s top law enforcement officer told radio host Howie Carr. The admission follows multiple reports stating the former FBI Deputy Head of Counterintelligence was escorted from the bureau’s headquarters on Friday as…

Family Research Council President Tony Perkins said Tuesday Attorney General Jeff Sessions is discussing with Congress the use of DNA tests at the border to confirm biological relationships between immigrant children and their parents. “Sessions is talking to congressional members and is hoping for a legislative fix,” said Perkins, adding the Justice Department’s aim is to execute “just,…

Attorney General Jeff Sessions said at the National Sheriffs’ Association annual conference in New Orleans on Monday that the way to end the stream of people, including children, who are coming across the U.S. border illegally is to build the wall and enact laws that stop illegal immigration and amnesty. “We do not want to…

Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionThe sound of migrant children separated from parents US Attorney General Jeff Sessions has rejected claims US holding centres for child migrants separated from parents are like Nazi concentration camps. America’s top law official told Fox News the “zero tolerance” policy was about enforcing border security. President…

Attorney General Jeff Sessions issued a sweeping restriction Thursday on so-called “administrative closures” in the immigration courts that often allow aliens facing deportation to remain in the country indefinitely as their cases fall off the docket, never to be rescheduled. In March, Sessions indicated he would use his power to overrule the Board of Immigration…

President Donald Trump suggested on Wednesday that Attorney General Jeff Sessions consider prosecuting Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf for “obstruction of justice” because she warned illegal immigrants in February about potential Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids. During a White House roundtable event with elected officials and law enforcement officials from California who oppose the state’s…